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3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference, day 2
First up today is a role play on the roadblocks to assessment, organised by Professor Mary Lynch.. We identified and discussed common roadblocks to assessment and propose ways to break them down. Mary pointed out in her introduction that US education is at an interesting moment, after the Task Force; but there are possible roadblocks…
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3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference
I’ve been invited to the 3rd Annual Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers Conference, subtitled Accelerating Competency: Assessment in Legal Education, and being held in Denver, COL. I’m live-blogging most of the event. The conference is hosted by the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS), who run a series of significant projects — one of which…
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Dangerous research
I’ve been catching up on and re-reading the recent regulatory literature coming from the ABA, now that I’m here in the USA and discussing experiential learning, assessment and much else with Roberto Corrada and his colleagues at Sturm Law School, University of Denver. The ABA Task Force report & recommendations that came out earlier this year…
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Letter from America
I’m in the US, by kind invitation of Roberto Corrada at Sturm College of Law, University of Denver and the IAALS conference, Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers. More of this in my next posts. But this post is about something else. I was sorry to see the Guardian come out for the No campaign in its editorial last…
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Scottish independence: future historical counterfactuals
In my post on the Scottish independence debate I quoted the distinguished medieval historian Geoffrey Barrow’s words from his inaugural lecture when he was made Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography at Edinburgh U in 1980, entitled The Extinction of Scotland: Now and again a picture comes into my mind, a scene from the…
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Independence declarations
There’s a new sub-genre of blog-posts appearing — the independence declarations of academics. Some great ones out there — see Malcolm Combes and Peter Matthews — engaging, wide-ranging and better argued than my own effort. Have you come across others? Drop me a line in the comments if you have. What I love about being in…
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ILEC 2014: Summary thoughts
My thanks to Nigel Duncan and Andy Boone for organising ILEC. It’s a difficult conference to map out because it’s so wide-ranging in its remit. That it succeeded is down not just to Nigel and Andy’s hard work and sensitivity in organising the sessions but to everyone’s willingness to be there and open their own…
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ILEC 2014, Session 7
Third and final day of ILEC. I’m attending a session on Ethics Culture. First up, Marnie Prasad and Mary-Rose Russell, from Auckland University of Technology Law School, on the ‘Professional and ethical challenges for criminal lawyers in the changing environment of legal representation: a New Zealand perspective’. They gave an engaging review of the structure…
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ILEC 20214, Session 4
Session 2 I was presenting on a version of The Wrong Story — slides on the Slides page, on the tab above. Also on the panel were Victoria Rees, regulator, BC Canada, and Adrian Evans. Had to take time to answer stuff coming in on email, but here we are at 4B, ‘Responding to the…
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ILEC 2014, session 1
I’m at the ILEC 2014 at City U., London. Just arrived, and at the first parallel session, choosing ‘The effect of technology on the regulation of lawyers in the US’. John O. McGinnis & Russell Pearce on ‘The coming disruption of law: machine intelligence and lawyers – diminishing monopoly rules’. ABA has made minor changes…
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Emergent educational designs and distributed autonomous organisations
Kate Galloway has posted on the digital revolution and the legal curriculum, and her piece warrants discussion. From her conclusion: I believe it possible to develop an ‘immersion’ law curriculum using digital literacies as an organising context. A scaffolded approach to knowledge, skills and attitudes is an essential part of the contemporary law curriculum. This…